Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions
- From: Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>
- To: gnome-i18n gnome org
- Subject: Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:21:13 -0400
I was working the other day on bug 335763, which allowed zenity yes/no
dialogues to have arbitrary text on the "yes" and "no" buttons. It
occurred to me today that this is actually a more general problem for
yes/no dialogues in languages where the answers to such questions depend
on the verb used. (I know Irish and Welsh have this feature.)
For example, from gossip:
msgid "Do you already have an account set up on a server?"
msgstr "A oes cyfrif ar weinydd Jabber gennych eisoes?"
Creating a dialogue with gtk_message_dialog_new() will give us buttons
called "Ie" and "Nage", which are generic unfocussed yes/no words.
I am turning over whether gettext might be appropriately extended to
something like, perhaps
#, yes-no
msgid "Do you already have an account set up on a server?"
msgstr "A oes cyfrif ar weinydd Jabber gennych eisoes?"
msgstr[y] "Oes"
msgstr[n] "Nac oes"
or possibly we might extend gtk so that the message_format string can
(perhaps if passed a special flag) contain yes/no text for the buttons
as appropriate, which would require minimal changes anywhere else:
msgid "Do you already have an account set up on a server?"
msgstr ""
"A oes cyfrif ar weinydd Jabber gennych eisoes?%(Oes)yb%(Nac oes)nb"
The second is my preferred option out of the two. It doesn't look hard
to implement, either.
Thoughts? Would this be useful outside the Celtic languages?
peace
T
--
Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman
No problem there -- it already is.
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